Creative Career Quotes

#1. When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been forever telling stories since I was very young.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

#2. I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

Cate Blanchett

#3. My whole creative career is a product of the Internet ... I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica and trivia and so on was well-formed long before I got my first AOL account.

John Hodgman

#4. I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I'm now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.

Ian Anthony Dale

#5. I have people who come up to me and say, 'Oh, seeing your work in my little home town in the middle of nowhere on the internet inspired me to move to London, or New York and pursue a creative career.' It makes me quite emotional.

Kesh

#6. I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.

Leonid Afremov

#7. In my career, fun becomes a big factor. If something feels like it's going to be creative and be fun - follow your bliss. Is this where the juice is? Then I go there.

Kenny Loggins

#8. This has been a long and tiring battle for 10 years. And I'm glad it's finally resolved. My principles and reputation as a creative artist were involved here-it wasn't just about the royalties. I can now look foward to getting on with my career.

Irene Cara

#9. I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.

Anna Paquin

#10. Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#11. Pick a profession that will give you enough money to give you economic freedom. It is nice to pick a career that really taxes your mind. Use your mind in new and creative ways. You will find that your mind will develop and become stronger.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

Jewel

#13. I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

Doreen Cronin

#14. Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time ... ' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

Victoria Aveyard

#15. God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Robert H. Schuller

#16. I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.

Jessica Clark

#17. I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

Danica McKellar

#18. Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

Biz Stone

#19. I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

David Henrie

#20. I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

Peter Jackson

#21. So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

Katherine Dunham

#22. I'm not saying you can't do writing, just do some writing that you can build a career on. Creative writing isn't going to get you anywhere.

Francesca Zappia

#23. If you want to be a creative person, then you're gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn't a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

Alec Soth

#24. One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never know where the next thing's going to come from.

Drew Goddard

#25. For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.

Les Claypool

#26. Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Laurieann Gibson

#27. I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

Rachel Stevens

#28. There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Enrique Iglesias

#29. Representing not just the resurrection of a career, 1953 marked 37-year-old Frank Sinatra's creative emergence as the best singer of his century.

Steve Erickson

#30. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
[1967 interview]

Ray Bradbury

#31. Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Don Yaeger

#32. I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

Bobby Cannavale

#33. Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else's needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to "help" and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.

Anne Lamott

#34. I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.

David Wroblewski

#35. I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.

Zooey Deschanel

#36. I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?

Paul Newman

#37. You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it.

Emily Blunt

#38. For a creative person starting out on a career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever. think about money.

Paul Arden

#39. You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one of the great pieces of wisdom that I got early on in my career in terms of being blocked. If you get to a creative roadblock, you can sit there and rack your brain.

Dave Koz

#40. I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

Sylvester Stallone

#41. If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.

Patrick Whitesell

#42. If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step ... the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

Dale Dauten

#43. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts ...

Madeleine L'Engle

#44. I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

Orson Scott Card

#45. You've got to run your career. What happens is a lot of times artists have this talent and they're just looking for somebody to take it and do something with it. And you have to be the creative force.

Will Smith

#46. There's nothing more creative I'll ever do in my career than trying to make an hour of TV everyday.

James Corden

#47. So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

Julia Cameron

#48. I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#49. I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.

Joseph Kosinski

#50. Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.

Alison Jackson

#51. I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago ... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.

Andrea Thompson

#52. It's funny because the voice-over world is definitely another career. It's another outlet to be creative. But, I'm just not invested, in the way that I am with film and television.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#53. I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.

Sufe Bradshaw